Adaptive radiation
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title:
Adaptive radiation
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In evolutionary biology, adaptive radiation is a process in which organisms diversify rapidly from an ancestral species into a multitude of new forms, particularly when a change in the environment makes new resources available, alters biotic interactions or opens new environmental niches. Starting with a single ancestor, this process results in the speciation and phenotypic adaptation of an array of species exhibiting different morphological and physiological traits. The prototypical example of
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A process in which organisms diversify rapidly from an ancestral species
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_radiation
date created:
2002-02-25T15:51:15Z
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2024-08-30T15:16:32Z
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